ALLEN PARK >> Reggie Bush says he’s quite familiar with the Detroit Lions’ new offense and for good reason.

He and Lions’ offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi spent five years together with the New Orleans Saints.

“It’s exactly the same,’’ Bush said after OTAs on Wednesday.

Coach Jim Caldwell disagreed when he was asked if he was going to lean on Bush more since he knows the offense.

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“I’m going to lean on Reggie right now because he’s telling all of our secrets,’’ Caldwell said with a smile.

The coach said since the NFL is somewhat of a copycat league, there will be similarities.

“There’s some things there, obviously Joe came from New Orleans he’ll be able to say, ‘Hey yeah this is just what we did in New Orleans.’ Or some of the other guys out there looks like some of the things the Colts did or Baltimore did. There’s a little bit of everything there.’’

Bush thinks the Lions have the talent here to make the offense that at least resembles the Saints’ offense work under Caldwell.

“We definitely have the players here, the personnel here to be explosive,’’ Bush said. “They’ve been that here for the last few years.’’

Bush is entering his second season with the Lions.

“I played in the system five years in New Orleans so all the terminology is pretty much the same for me,’’ Bush said. “We definitely have what it takes to be an explosive offense just like we were last year we just have to do the little things right but we’ll be OK.’’

Williams shifts to tackle

Michael Williams, who was drafted in the seventh round in 2013 as a tight end, has made the move to offensive tackle.

“We’ve been talking abut it for a while, it was up to me to make the decision,’’ Williams said on Wednesday. “I feel I can prolong my career this way, my style of tight end is not being used as much in the NFL now.’’

Williams has started the program of gaining weight adding six or seven pounds so far. He’s not sure what the exact weight goal is, depends on how his body feels.

It’s not as easy as putting away Big Macs and shakes.

“It’s just about me building my muscles it’s not just trying to gain weight,’’ Williams said. “You’ve got to gain the right weight. I feel like I’ll be able to do that.’’

“It’s one of those things too where, you know, (he is) a guy who is probably a natural,’’ Caldwell said, “I mean, he had to fight to keep his weight down. He came back and he was somewhat in the neighborhood of 300 pounds. You don’t see very many 300-pound tight ends. He’s a big guy, so I think it allows him not to necessarily have to worry about cutting weight all the time to kind of fit the position. I think he’s a naturally big guy that can be a very, very athletic tackle.’’

Golden Tate back with Seahawks

Lions wide receiver Golden Tate joined his former Seattle Seahawks teammates on Wednesday as they visited the White House to be honored as the Super Bowl champions.

Caldwell was totally supportive.

“I think that’s an imp moment, I had the great pleasure of going to the White House on a couple of occasions and have the opportunity to shake the president’s hand,’’ Caldwell said. “It’s hard to do, very difficult to do. You don’t know exactly when you’re going to be there the next time or if you’re going to get there again. For him to miss out on that opportunity I thought would not be good, I understand how special it is.’’

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